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Interactive Course

Our award-winning software introduces you to speaking, listening, reading, and writing in your new language in a way that mimics the way you learned your first language.

Games & Activities

Engage with other learners in our structured online community for games, activities, and live chats – all designed to help you reinforce your new language skills.

Mobile Apps

Stay connected to your new language wherever you take your smartphone or tablet with our mobile apps.

Live Online Tutoring

Practice your conversation skills in live online sessions with a coach and up to three other learners. Designed to use only what you've learned, each tutoring session will encourage you to think and speak only in your new language.

Designed for your real-world language
success.

Aim for native pronunciation with our speech-recognition engine.

With the Rosetta Stone® method, you'll speak
Dari from the very first lesson. And you'll
receive real-time feedback every time you speak. Our proprietary speech
recognition engine, the most advanced in the industry, compares your
pronunciation to millions of native speakers 100 times per second.
Instant feedback means that at every step, you'll know exactly how
you're doing.

Practice your conversation skills in live tutoring sessions.

The best part about learning Dari is speaking it. And who better to converse with
than a native Dari speaker? We get it. That's where Live Tutoring
comes in. At optimal points in your course, we'll nudge you to schedule
an online session to connect with a native Dari-speaking tutor for experience practicing your new
skills!

Even though they're carefully structured to reinforce exactly what
you've learned, these sessions are totally casual. And convenient,
round-the-clock availability allows you to schedule your session when
it suits your schedule.

Get introduced to millions of practice partners in our online community.

Languages are made to be shared. And when you
learn a new language the Rosetta Stone® way, you're never alone. Our
online community gives you exclusive access to millions of other learners—for the opportunity to refine your new skills in language
games and activities specifically matched to what you're learning.

Dari Facts

Dari, also known as Afghan Persian, is a member of the Indo-European language family and is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan, along with Pashto. It's the most widely spoken of the two and is used as the lingua franca between ethnic communities. Dari is the language spoken in Afghan schools, and it's used in official capacities in administrative and government settings, for example, and in radio, print media, and television.

Why Should You Learn Dari?

Learn Dari, a member of the Indo-European language family and is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan, along with Pashto.

What are the differences between Dari vs. Farsi.

The two languages called Dari (spoken in Afghanistan) and Farsi (spoken in Iran) belong to the same linguistic family and are so similar that they're mutually intelligible. Speakers of Farsi and Dari can understand each other as, for example, speakers of different varieties of English can. However, there are important differences between Dari and Farsi. For example, in Farsi, the words for "milk" and "lion" are both pronounced as shir in Farsi, but in Dari they're pronounced differently, as shir and sher, respectively.

Dari and its literary history.

Dari is a language of great literary tradition, with roots that date back to Old Persian. Dari uses the Perso-Arabic script, so words and phrases are written from right to left and many vowel sounds are not represented in writing. The Masnavi, the influential thirteenth-century poem by Rumi, is one of the best-known works of Persian literature.